Beyond Broadcast: Dinner Talk with Eli

Me talking with Eli.

conversation topics: camera, pictures, second life, product diffusion, community development, youth media, schools, standards, protocols, IP discrimination, participation, technology, blip, distrubution, participatory ghettos, youtube, myspace sucks, sacramento, politics, community organizing, china, literacy



Present: Eli Chapman, Kenyatta Cheese, Jay Dedman, Josh Kinberg, Blip Group, Jennifer Myronuk and Tricia Wang


This informal dinner conversation was more meaningful than most of the whole conference today (excluding Terry Heaton, James Boyle, Eszter Harattai, Second Life Presentation by John Lester, and Mark Cooper).

Thankfully we talked about how to structure tomorrow's work groups to make it a kick-ass day.

Friday 10:15 pm 5/12/06 Somerville, Massachusetts
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Beyond Broadcast: Panel IV Notes on Mark Cooper

Mark Cooper is the Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America where he has responsibility for analysis and advocacy in the areas of telecommunications, media, digital rights, economic and energy policy.

He is the only one from Panel IV and Panel III that made any sense. So far I've been disappointed with the panels. The problem is that the talk is not focused on what's "BEYOND BROADCAST!" which is the whole theme of the conference. they keep talking about BROADCAST itself. Kenyatta says that the problem is that they are ascribing broadcast models to the individual - but the problem is that broadcast cannot be scaled down to the individual - so it's unfair to apply broadcast models. So far the only folks who have spoken about "beyond broadcast" is Terry Heaton and Mark Cooper. The 10min Second Life Presentation was cool - but it was too short - I would've like to see more discussion about collaboration on 2nd life.

MY NOTES FROM HIS TALK:

• We need new business models that are better rooted in civil society not based on advertising or charity.
• Time Warner and ABC put up their content for free - that's a sign of the revolution.
• can't be narrowband company in broadband world e..g AOL is an example
• now can't be one-way company in a two-way world: the minute we got ability to create content the internet exploded and old one-way media freaked
• we are no longer passive consumers
• old media will try to make you feel participation
• new media gives real was to participate
• old models: broadcast, cable tv, public TV
• new model: networked individuals and and paid membership tv
• 40-million bloggers is less then 1% of world's population
• This can be the future of participation: Participatory Cooperatives bc. of trust. e.g. credit unions, farmers, food coops
• I am suggesting Not a subscription model but a members model, members decide what to put on - find people who will pay little $ decide what they want to watch
• you have to fund yourself if you want change in civil society
• old media: closed reporting, editing and responses
• open media: breaks this model
• if you give members a chance to participate within an open space in one of the function - the more willing they pay - part of an organization that has influence larger that their own community - people want to see change beyond themselves
• government should provide the space for people to speak - give us back the spectrum - wifi. Municipality should provide wireless system. let gvt provide infrastructure
• give people a chance to speak with a new business model - allow public be public to compete on open market

DSC_0051 - Originally uploaded by nesson.

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Beyond Broadcast: Audience Talk Back on Who is this "JZ"

Beyond Broadcast: Audience Talk Back on Who is this "JZ"
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During Panel III - which was dry dry dry - we had a very exciting 5 minutes during Q&A as this guy JZ web-cammed in and was projected onto large screen as he asked his long question. What was funny was that right next to his face they projected the current questions/comments that audience had submitted over their laptops. So as he was talking about intellectural property rights media community, people were commenting on how he might be god, hip-hop rapper and etc.

Beyond Broadcasting: KENYATTA looks Dapper

Beyond Broadcasting: KENYATTA looks Dapper
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Beyond Broadcasting: Jay Dedman A Jennifer Myronuk

Hey old friend and hey new friend. Jay Dedman of Fireant, is back on the East Coast - well sorta - Boston counts :). Jennifer is the co-founder of Storyfield: collaborative software project to help historians and documentary producers better organize their projects.

Beyond Broadcasting: Jay Dedman A Jennifer Myronuk Originally uploaded by triciawang 王 圣 㨗.

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Beyond Broadcast: My Notes on Terry Heaton's Talk and My Thoughts

My Notes from Terry's Talk: What the Broadcasters are Doing

Prosperity is in the disruption - it's countertuitive to ask broadcasters to embrace that!

1. Media unbundled at the point of origin and rebundled at the point of consumption - the problem is that you are only a content provider if you only bundle media- the business is helping people rebundle media for their own consumption.

2. mediated people make their own media

ALL ROADS LEAD TO WKRN:

Nashville is aggregating blogs, maintain blogsosphere database and manage ad network for blogger and this results in: influence, visitors, reveunue and ratings

MY THOUGHTS

• Terry Heaton has been giving some great responses to questions. Many people were giving doomsday questions and figures - saying that only white people are using the internet and what happens when most people in the world aren't literate? Terry responded that illiteracy is not a result of internet access and increased access will not solve that illiteracy b.c it's a systematic social problem that we all need work on by talking to each other and figuring it out. THANK YOU TERRY FOR NOT NOT NOT PLAYING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE CARD!


• I like his answer!!!


• That's exactly what we are doing at freeDimensional by creating a civic participation journalism blogging program in Bedford-Stuyvesant that would contextualize the idea of mediating, creating and distributing their own media. We want to engage youth in literacy and critical thinking, and participatory technology is a means to an end - which is civic engagement, media literacy skills, technology skills and literacy skills.


• I am getting annoyed at all the questions that there aren't enough people of color using the internet or that too may folks of color are not online. I think what people are forgetting is that it's not in how many people of color are "sending e-mails" but we need to look at discrimination on a meta level - like in protocols, standards, codecs, IP rights and etc. That's why looking at China's movement in creating their own protocols is such a great case-study. They are literally fighting IP imperialism as we speak. photo uploaded by Dan Phiffer.

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Beyond Broadcast: Fri Keynote with James Doyle

Beyond Broadcast: Fri Keynote with James Doyle

I am at the Beyond Broadcast Conference in Boston. I'm going to post notes from the conference for the next 2 days.

James Boyle's Keynote on How Not to Screw All This Up: Network Nuetrality

• it is a blindness to not see potential of commons-based production -


• we fail to see that by not completely controling property rights and etc there is opportunity to generate interesting levels of content. We are blind at every level of networked policy.


• we tend to systematically undervalue the openess and see only the potential of closed side and we should be aware of this.


• at every level there shold be a balance of protection versus openess = communications protocol and we need to decide how open or close.


• this struggle of decisions omn levels of control happens on every level, content generation to individual design-e.g. computer-e.g. language


• inability to understand costs of closing systems - they want incentives and control


• we are not good at understanding intangible property


• it's hard to deplete an idea


• Enclosure movement


• we tend not to think of authors as producing stuff out of raw material


• law school teaches the opposite - train lawyers to assume that client wants ALL the rights and MAXIMIM control - that's an assumption that schools assume this type of training

Some Tips:

• make sure you leave as much room for feedback so that other's can see what you can't see


• dont' give up on net nuetrality


• don't make more controls - DRM


• we need a counterweight to property rights - antitrust-democracy

James Doyles is a William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School

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